Description:
This volume selects major moments and key players from the seventh century to the twenty-first that have defined Muslim networks as the building blocks for Islamic identity and social cohesion. The contributors invoke the past not only to understand the present but also to reimagine the future through the prism of Muslim networks, at once the shadow and the lifeline for the global Muslim community.
Brief description: miriam cooke, professor of Arabic literature at Duke University, is author of Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature and the novel Hayati, My Life.